Turisti Ovunque (Tourists Everywhere)
Drenched veil, Venetian canal residue, gilded frame, 2025
Commenced during the Venetian Bind residency in Dorsoduro, Venice, Turisti Ovunque (Tourists Everywhere) captures the saturated memory of a city overwhelmed by its own splendour.
A veil, immersed and dragged through the canal waters, absorbs residue, sediment, churn, and human trace, becoming an artefact of both contamination and beauty. The performative elements of this gesture were recorded on site, marking the work’s genesis as both action and artefact.
Returned to Australia with its embedded particles, the veil carries the tension between opulence and decay, tourism and trespass. Encased in a gilded frame, the stained fabric transitions between reverence and critique, echoing the colonial gaze that transforms its haunting toxicity into value and reframes waste as treasure. In this gesture, the work exposes the fragility of Venice’s allure, a city simultaneously drowning in history, water, and human impact, while reflecting on the ethics of aesthetic consumption and the seductions of spectacle.
Performance Photography by Dan Koop
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Photograph by Dan Koop
Turisti Ovunque (Tourists Everywhere)
Drenched veil, Venetian canal residue, gilded frame, 2025
Commenced during the Venetian Bind residency in Dorsoduro, Venice, Turisti Ovunque (Tourists Everywhere) captures the saturated memory of a city overwhelmed by its own splendour.
A veil, immersed and dragged through the canal waters, absorbs residue, sediment, churn, and human trace, becoming an artefact of both contamination and beauty. The performative elements of this gesture were recorded on site, marking the work’s genesis as both action and artefact.
Returned to Australia with its embedded particles, the veil carries the tension between opulence and decay, tourism and trespass. Encased in a gilded frame, the stained fabric
transitions between reverence and critique, echoing the colonial gaze that transforms its haunting toxicity into value and reframes waste as treasure. In this gesture, the work exposes the fragility of Venice’s allure, a city simultaneously drowning in history, water, and human impact, while reflecting on the ethics of aesthetic consumption and the seductions of spectacle.
Photograph by Dan Koop
Photograph by Dan Koop